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7972445 Vertical continuous vacuum pan  
The present invention consists of an improved vertical continuous vacuum pan apparatus consisting of eight chambers (2) (instead of four or five) and a storage or buffer tank (27) at the top,...
7195674 Continuous pan crystallizer  
A continuous pan crystallier for use in the sugar industry includes a heated zone in the form of a steam chamber (32) below a calandria (22). The heated zone heats massecuite in the area below the...
7067013 Method and plant for the production of refined sugar from a sugared juice  
Method for producing refined sugar from sugared juice, such as raw juice from sugar cane or from sugar beet, containing sugar and impurities, which comprises the operations of: tangential...
6790288 Process and plant for evaporative concentration and crystallization of a viscous lactose-containing aqueous liquid  
Crystalline α-lactose monohydrate is recovered from a viscous lactose-containing aqueous liquid by subjecting said liquid to simultaneous heating, removal of evaporated vapor and mechanical ...
6274727 Method for producing shaped and unshaped polyol masses  
The invention relates to a composition, comprising one or more polyols, which has prolonged deformability and can be processed to give tablets, compacts or boiled sweets having improved properties.
6206977 Method for crystallizing anhydrous fructose from its aqueous solutions  
Methods of crystallizing anhydrous fructose from aqueous solutions using a large scale crystallizer are provided. The various crystallization methods include at least a cooling crystallization step...
6120612 Method for the continuous manufacture of anhydrous crystalline maltitol and a manufacturing apparatus therefor  
Disclosed herein is a continuous manufacturing method for anhydrous crystalline maltitol comprising the following steps: (i) a heating and concentrating step where an aqueous solution containing...
5583215 Crystalline mixture solid containing maltitol and a process for preparing it  
The crystalline mixture solid containing maltitol of the present invention has a crushed and relatively tight crystal structure which can be observed at 1,000 magnifications by a scanning electron...
5275666 Auxiliary apparatus for producing maple syrup  
An auxiliary apparatus for producing maple syrup from maple sap is adapted to utilize the latent heat of the steam emitted from the flue pan of a maple syrup evaporator which is fitted in sealed...
5223040 Batch process and apparatus for crystallizing syrup  
A batch process of producing sugar crystals from syrup in a discontinuously operated crystallization apparatus comprising a heating calandria, comprises the steps of graining a batch of...
5201957 Sugar production apparatus  
An evaporator in the form of a vacuum pan has partitions (38) providing a plurality of compartments (42, 46) between an inlet and outlet. The compartments increase in volume from the inlet to the...
5133807 Process and installation for the continuous production of sugar crystals  
A two-stage crystallization for the continuous production of sugar crystals from syrup comprises crystallizing the syrup in a first stage by subjecting the syrup to a sufficient heat of evaporation...
4953538 Piggy back evaporating for maple syrup evaporator apparatus or the like  
A piggy back evaporator includes a drip pan having an oblique condensate drain sheet extending over the major length of the same. A steam hole within the condensate drain sheet allows steam to...
4875940 Massecuite supersaturation monitor  
The invention provides an apparatus for controlling both the supersaturation of the mother liquor and the crystal content of massecuite by measuring di-electric constant and electrical conductivity...
4840678 Pipe coil cooker  
A sugar-cooking apparatus of the type having a standing pipe coil surrounded by a heating jacket. The coiled pipe is of flattened cross-section for improved heat transfer. During use, a mixture of...
4819615 Piggy back evaporator for maple syrup evaporator apparatus or the like  
A piggy back evaporator is sealably coupled in open box form overlying a sugar maple sap evaporator and aligned with an upright flue pan of the conventional sugar maple sap evaporator which, when...
4816076 Continuous pan crystallizer  
A continuous pan crystallizer, which is conventional in that it has a number of compartments, has cross-over ports through which massecuite passes from compartment to compartment just above heating...
4816079 Process for continuous crystallization of dextrose monohydrate  
A process for continuous dextrose-monohydrate crystallization whereby an evaporated concentrated liquor is mixed with a recirculated dilute phase to form a feeding liquor. At least a portion of...
4666527 Continuous crystallization of fructose anhydride  
The present invention relates to a process for continuously crystallizing fructose anhydride using a seed crystallization tank and a crystallization tank separated from each other, comprising...
4518436 Process for the production of graft crystals for use in seeding sugar boiling brines  
The production of graft crystals for use in seeding sugar boiling brines is achieved by means of adding milled sugar of a grain size of 5-20 micrometer to a sugar solution with a supersaturation...
4486395 Continuously working crystallizer  
The invention relates to a continuously working crystallizer in the shape of an oblong vessel with at its one end a supply and at its other end a discharge for the solution, with a rotatable driven...
4468409 Method for the continuous production of confections  
A process for preparing a grained confection from a supersaturated sugar solution on a continuous basis is provided. A homogeneous aqueous solution comprised of corn syrup and sucrose is...
4452703 Control of scale in sugar evaporation equipment  
The instant invention is directed to a method for preventing the formation of scale in sugar evaporation equipment comprising adding to the juice from 0.1 to 200 ppm of a polycarboxylic acid or its...
4404038 Process and installation for producing lactose crystals  
To increase the percentage of crystallized lactose obtained from lactoserum substantially without noticeably increasing investment costs or energy consumption, the first phase of crystallization is...
4308236 Heat exchangers for crystallization of crystallizable suspensions while in motion  
Heat exchanger for crystallization of crystallizable suspensions while in motion including a vertical cylindrical tank divided into an upper or deposit section containing an agitating vane and a...
4293570 Process for the preparation of sweetener containing product  
An apparatus and process for the preparation of cryptocrystalline sweeteners, such as sorbitol, by the spraying of a heated, aqueous, low-viscosity, high-solids, sweetener solution, employing a...
4202859 Crystallizer  
A crystallizer which comprises a vertically mounted elongated container that contains at least one bundle of spaced cooling pipes extending longitudinally of the container and a wing attached to a...
4196385 Method and apparatus for measuring the concentration of fluids  
In a method and apparatus for measuring the concentration of a fluid depending on the dielectric constant of the fluid, electric oscillations are supplied from a source through an impedance...
4164429 Process and installation for the production of selected crystallization seeds for use in a sugar refinery  
Process, centrifuge and installation for producing crystallization seeds, as for the sugar industry. A suspension of crystals produced from the seeded solution is subjected to a scheme of...
4162927 Apparatus for crystallizing sugar solution and mother liquors continuously by evaporation  
An apparatus for continuously crystallizing sugar, both by developing crystals from sugar solutions and by exhausting solutions of mother liquor from a massecuite, or cooked mass, by means of...
4155774 Process for controlling the rate of growth of particulate masses  
A vacuum pan is controlled by directly monitoring the total solids concentration of a boiling solution. A preferred type of process relates the change in concentration of sugar in a massecuite to...
4131507 Evaporator  
An evaporator which is specifically adapted for the evaporation of sugar cane juices, however, it is a versatile apparatus and may be used with equal facility in various evaporating situations....
4120745 Semi-continuous vacuum pan system  
This invention pertains to a low head semi-continuous vacuum pan system for crystallization of a substance from solution of the substance, including the crystallization of a sugar from a sugar...
4119436 Sugar refining process  
A process for the production of sugar from either sugar beets or cane wherein of the total amount of thin juice processed, only that amount required to produce the vapor needed for the sugar...
4099982 Method of evaporating and spray drying of a sucrose solution  
An aqueous sucrose solution is evaporated continuously while being subject to vigorous mechanical agitation to produce a sucrose suspension which is spray dried immediately, after which the spray...
4074751 Multiflow rotary heat exchanger element  
A multiflow rotary heat exchanger element of the type normally used for the continuous processing of various materials through heating, cooling and stirring includes a shaft arranged to rotate...
4069065 Apparatus for the continuous crystallization of sugar  
Apparatus for the continuous crystallization of sugar comprising a tank separated into two longitudinal zones, one heated and the other not heated, transverse walls being provided in the upper part...
4056364 Two stage continuous crystallization apparatus with controls  
A crystallizable solute is crystallized from a solution containing the same by introducing a solution of said solute into a first stage evaporative-crystallization zone together with seed solute...
4050953 Process for continuously producing sugar  
In a continuous sugar evaporator-crystallizer having a plurality of evaporating-crystallizing vessels as stages, each evaporating-crystallizing stages being communicated one to another in series...
4016001 Method and device for obtaining sugar crystals from a sugar solution  
A method and a device for obtaining sugar crystals from a sugar solution by concentrating the thick juice emanating from the multi-stage evaporator in a continuously operating pre-concentrator to a...
4009045 Continuous crystallization process and apparatus  
Sugar is continuously crystallized from a sugar bearing solution in a single stage vacuum pan by a method and apparatus comprising means for and the steps of continuously supplying a sugar bearing...
3981739 Continuous crystallization  
A crystallizable solute is crystallized from a solution containing the same by introducing a solution of said solute into a first stage evaporative-crystallization zone together with seed solute...
3972725 Production of crystalline sugar  
A supersaturated sugar syrup is crystallized following the catastrophic homogeneous nucleation induced by application of a shear force having a velocity gradient of at least 5000 cm/sec/cm, e.g. by...
3899386 Method for controlling vacuum pan  
In a process wherein heat is exchanged between the heat exchanger and the solution and crystals are generated and grown in the solution, the crystal size and the inter-crystal gap length in the...
3880668 Apparatus for producing molasses food product  
An apparatus for the continuous, large scale production of a dried molasses food product. Liquid molasses is continuously deposited in a thin film on a stationary heated surface. The material is...
3879215 Compartmentalized vacuum pan for crystallization of sugar  
A vacuum pan for the crystallization of sugar by the continuous boiling of a seeded sugar syrup is made up of a vapor-tight horizontal elongated cylindrical casing divided into compartments by...
3762947 CRYSTALLIZER  
A crystallizer construction for sugar and the like having a cylindrical container with a rotatably driven axially extending hollow shaft therein and a helical tubular coil adjacent the periphery of...
3706599 SUGAR DRYING METHOD  
In a process for drying droplets of sucrose-containing solution in a current of heated air and in the presence of 0.5 to 4.0 parts by weight of separately introduced recycled product solids per...
3680621 CRYSTALLIZATION INSTALLATION WITH CONTROL SYSTEM  
Sugar is crystallized out of sugar juice by passing the juice through a succession of heated crystallization cells. Diluted sugar juice is supplied to the intermediate cells and the last cell....
3642534 SUGAR-CRYSTALLIZING METHOD AND APPARATUS  
A magma of sugar seed crystals is prepared by grinding the massecuite continuously withdrawn from a crystallizer in a ball mill until the crystalline, particulate sugar in the mother liquor of the...
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